Calls
Soft robotics reaches beyond science and applied technology; its community spans researchers and engineers as well as artists and educators. We encourage academic, educational, industrial, and artistic contributions to soft robotics through a range of presentation formats. For detailed formats and deadlines for each submission category at RoboSoft 2026, please see the respective pages. We look forward to your submissions.
- Contributed Papers
- Extended Abstracts
- Workshops
- Competitions
- ZooQuarium (TBA)
- Art Gallery (TBA)
Topics
The conference covers and welcomes submissions on (but not limited to) the following soft-robotics areas:
- Materials
- Soft materials and smart polymers: gels, textiles, composites, phase-change, self-healing
- Architected & programmable materials: metamaterials, auxetics, anisotropy
- Actuation
- fluidic, dielectric, shape-memory, light-/magnetically driven systems
- Sensing
- Embedded/flexible/stretchable electronics
- Haptics: tactile sensing, electronic skins, soft haptic interfaces
- Design & fabrication
- 3D/4D printing, soft–rigid integration, topology/shape optimization
- Inflatable/membrane and textile structures; origami/kirigami
- Variable-stiffness, jamming, compliant mechanisms, morphing structures
- Modularity, reconfigurability, self-assembly
- Continuum robots, underactuated design
- Autonomy
- Morphological computation; embodied intelligence
- Bio-inspired and biomimetic robotics
- Control
- Modeling, simulation, and system identification for compliant bodies
- Control, planning, and estimation for highly deformable systems, materials–morphology–control
- Learning-based methods and data-driven design/optimization
- Manipulation and Locomotion
- soft grippers and hands
- continuum arm, hyper-redundant manipulator
- terrestrial, subterranean, aerial, and underwater soft robots
- field applications
- Wearable/assistive soft robotics, human–robot interaction, safety, human-in-the-loop design
- Medical, surgical, and rehabilitation applications
- Benchmarking, evaluation metrics, reproducibility, and standards
- Art, design, outreach, and education in soft robotics
This list is illustrative rather than exhaustive; we encourage high-quality submissions on any topic that advances
